PSY 731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wilhelm Wundt, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review
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The book which i here present to the public is an attempt to mark out a new domain of science (1874) Ex. scienti c study of human conscious experience. The facts of consciousness, its combinations and relations, so that it may ultimately discover the laws which govern these relations and combinations (1912) Sum total of facts of which we are conscious . Content: what you think it means, that is present to us as observers. Apprehension: what an observer makes about that content. If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?". Active intentional process, focus attention on stimuli. Self-observation: attempt to analyze one"s life experiences through introspective re ection. Inner perception: deliberatively observing one"s mental processes. Don"t listen to the metronome and pay attention the experiences it gives rise to.